Bend Crouch That's The Gym

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I must go back to the gym.

That is what we say at the beginning of the year. The gym is where people use all kinds of steel and iron gadgets to get rid of the food they consumed in December. However, fitness centres cannot fix what is caused by a chosen lifestyle. Granted, office workers are chained to their desks for seven or eight hours. They have no choice but to drive to the gym after work to bend and crouch, to get the blood flowing again.

A chosen lifestyle might be sitting on the couch eating food that becomes a tenant of the waistline, addiction to certain TV shows, crunching potato chips while playing video games the whole day, always drinking soda that loves to inherit certain parts of your body and not bending to pick up anything.

Bend and crouch. That is what a workout is all about.  Bend and crouch. To get a clearer meaning of these twin words, check out some ads for cleaning offices, homes, hotels and anything else cleaned by people we call, the less privileged.

Senators, members of parliament, software developers and nuclear physicists have no reason to look at cleaning jobs, but they do, if they are fitness crazy in search of the perfectly sculptured body.

Cleaning jobs have a warning: the task involves bending and crouching and other repeated body motions.  You don’t make up your own bed, so you don’t know the advantages of making 20 beds a day.  It is repetitive work.  If that is not working out in the gym, I don’t know what is. That is why most cleaners look trim.  

They sweep, collect dust, throw it in the trash can and mop.  The mop is the ultimate workout: swish, swash and press the water out.  It is all systematic and every cleaner has a unique way of doing it. It’s called bend and crouch.

By: Nonqaba waka Msimang

 

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